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Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 1992. 21:43-66
Copyright ? 1992 by Annual Reviews Inc. All rights reserved
MOBJHTY/SEDENTISM: CONCEPTS,
ARCHAEOLOGICAL MEASURES,
AND EFFECTS
Robert L. Kelly
INTRODUCTION
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tence, and demography (44, 69, 71, 73, 89, 93, 124, 126, 152) as well as
cultural notions of material wealth, privacy, individuality, cooperation, and
competition (170).
Here I consider concepts of mobility/sedentism, archaeological measures of
mobility, and the effects of reduced mobility, focusing on foraging and, secon-
darily, on horticultural societies. (Space prohibits discussion of nomadic pas-
toralists; for reviews see 36, 40, 98.)
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residentially only a few times each year (107) while the Aeta of the northern
Philippines move residentially much more frequently (90). Both, however, are
foragers since they move consumers to resources; the difference in the fre-
quency of movement is related to the food density of their respective environ-
ments.
Binford did not intend that the concepts of foragers and collectors become
types. Instead, he used them as conceptual tools that helped him to think about
the organization of camp movement relative to foraging activities and thus to
understand the role mobility plays in creating archaeological sites. Many have
misunderstood this aspect of Binford's original paper. The archaeological
literature is replete with examples of "foragers" and "collectors," along with
efforts to critique the behavioral descriptions of the two concepts while ignor-
ing the more important organizational differences they encompass (e.g. 6,
164).
Binford (18, 20) later added another dimension, what we might call territo-
rial or long-term mobility, encompassing cyclical movements of a group
among a set of territories. For example, the Nunamiut's specific annual range
changes as caribou populations rose and fell, and as resources such as fire-
wood became depleted at particular locations (3, 20). While the Nunamiut
change the location and size of their territory every decade or so, they eventu-
ally return to a previously used tract of land. Thus, they circulate through a
series of territories. Long-term mobility is often seen as a conservation meas-
ure (51), but it is more likely a response to subsistence stress (65). In either
case, the land required by a foraging (or horticultural) population over the long
term is much larger than the area used during a single year. Constraints on the
long-term territory rather than on the annual territory may be important in
conditioning evolutionary change (133).
Finally, to residential, logistical, and long-term mobility we can add perma-
nent migration from a former territory. Such migration can be intentional or
unintentional, and it can result from movement of groups or from gradual
abandonment by individuals or families. It is probably caused by population
growth, but there may be other reasons as well. This aspect of mobility is
poorly studied becaus. modem foragers and horticulturalists are encapsulated
and circumscribed by agricultural and industrial societies. However, because
most of the world was initially populated by foraging peoples, migration must
have been an important dimension of mobility in the past (for discussion of
free-wandering, see 11).
As should be apparent, most definitions of mobility are behavioral. Mobil-
ity has, of course, a cultural component, in that cultural conceptions of the
environment affect the way a locality is treated, as Steward pointed out many
years ago (85, 148). Hunter-gatherers who leave a place physically and con-
ceptually, for example, may treat it differently from those who leave a locale
physically but who still think of it as a place on the landscape, perhaps because
of facilities located there (20) or because of a cultural attachment to it. Some
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foragers move when the returns of logistical forays from the curr
below those to be expected from another camp, after allowing fo
moving (92).
We should point out that foragers do not always move as a group; forager
social units, in fact, can have an extremely fluid composition. Relieving social
tension is a reason often given for this fluidity, and subsistence can often be a
source of this tension. Large families, for example, will reach the point of
diminishing returns more quickly than small families, and may move on a
different schedule. The degree to which everyone's subsistence is tied to the
same resource (e.g. fish runs, communal hunting) will also condition the
degree to which families move together. Since many plant foods provide lower
returns than large game, the point of diminishing returns will be reached at
shorter distances for plant gathering than for hunting large game. Since large
game is usually procured by men (with a few ethnographic exceptions),
women's foraging should by and large determine when camp is moved. This is
important in considering the effect of reduced residential mobility on women's
and men's activities (see below).
At the heart of the relationship between daily foraging and group movement
is perceived "costs" of camp movement and foraging. While it is unclear what
period (e.g. per hour, day, or week) should be used in assessing the cost and
benefits of moving and foraging, we still might predict that as the cost of camp
movement increases relative to the benefit of foraging in a new location,
foragers will remain longer in the current camp (92). Several variables enter
into the decision to move. One important variable is the return rate of the
exploited foods. As resource return rates decline, foragers reach the point of
diminishing returns at shorter and shorter distances and must move more
frequently. Likewise, if a resource appearing elsewhere provides higher return
rates than current foraging provides, the forager may also elect to move. (This,
rather than "affluence," probably explains why foragers pass up some re-
sources; see 70.) Another variable is the "cost" of moving, determined not
only by the distance to the next camp but also by what must be moved (e.g.
housing material), the terrain to be covered (e.g. mountains versus prairie), and
availability of transport technology (such as dogsleds or horses) to move
housing, food, and/or people. If food has been stored, then the cost of moving
it must be balanced against the next camp's anticipated resources. Models
predicting how far resources can be transported (87, 128) show that a re-
source's return rate does not necessarily predict how far that resource can be
carried.
Perceived costs of moving must include evaluations of the risk involved in
transferring to a new location. "Risk" involves several components, such as
the likelihood of an event's occurring and the magnitude of that event. If
foragers perceive the next camp's resources to be more risky, they may elect to
remain where they are and accept lower mean foraging rates. Some desert
hunter-gatherers, called tethered nomads by Taylor (151), remain at a water
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source at the expense of decreasing foraging return rates (moving only when
water runs out) because they are uncertain of the status of other water holes.
Some Australian Aborigines, for example, will consume only 800 kcal/day
and forage up to 15 km from camp rather than move to an insecure water
source (33).
Finally, the number of people who forage for each family, and their specific
tasks, can affect mobility. The usual assumption is that adults forage, with
women gathering plant food and men hunting. However, in some societies
children forage and can provide much of their daily food needs (24); in others,
women sometimes hunt (50). Understanding variability in age and sex division
of labor is a prerequisite to understanding mobility.
Non-Energetic Variables
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SEDENTISM
One of the most important topics in archaeology today is the question of the
origins of sedentism, especially sedentism among hunter-gatherers. For many
years, sedentism was thought to be incompatible with a foraging lifeway
except in a few favored locations, North America's Northwest Coast being the
classic example. However, it is now clear from archaeological and ethnohisto-
ric data that significant reductions in residential mobility occurred without
benefit of agriculture (or with agriculture playing only a minor role) in a
number of areas, including the Gulf Coast of Florida (163), the Levant (8-10,
30), the American Midwest (29, 28, but see 115), and perhaps coastal/highland
Peru (1, 130). Recognition of these prehistoric cases has caused many archae-
ologists to reexamine the concept of sedentism.
The term sedentism is used in many different ways and encompasses a range
of settlement forms (25). What one author labels sedentary another may label
semi-sedentary; some authors focus on settlement permanence, others on set-
tlement size (47, 126). Even where sedentism is defined, ambiguity may
remain. Higgs & Vita-Finzi (77:29), for example, defined sedentary econo-
mies as those "practiced by human groups which stay in one place all the year
round," but these authors also recognized sedentary-cum-mobile societies hav-
ing "a mobile element associated with sedentary occupation." Most authors
see sedentism as a process "whereby human groups reduce their mobility to
the point where they remain residentially stationary year-round" (80:374), and
sedentary settlement systems as "those in which at least part of the population
remains at the same location throughout the entire year" (G. Rice, in 30:183).
For the sake of convenience, I use these definitions here.
Sedentism is usually considered a relative rather than an absolute condition
(e.g. 130:270). "Sedentary" settlement, therefore, usually means a condition
less mobile than some previous one. Thus, Brown & Vierra (29:189) refer to
the settlement systems of the Middle Archaic Period of the American Midwest
as ones of "increasing degrees of sedentary settlement." Bar-Yosef & Belfer-
Cohen (9:490, 10:186) refer to the Natufian Phase in the Levant as the period
of the "emergence" of sedentism, a period of increasing "degrees" of seden-
tism, a trend to be "deepened" during the succeeding Early Neolithic Phase
(see also 27). Archaeologists envision the "emergence" of sedentism as a
process akin to a settlement system's batteries running down: People move
less and less until they are not moving at all. The transition is thus quantitative,
not qualitative. It is not clear, however, whether the slow "emergence" of
sedentism is always real, or is in some cases a product of a poor sample of the
archaeological record. Depending on chronological controls and sites' tempo-
ral distribution, a slow transition could appear to be quick, or vice versa.
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THE "PULL" AND "PUSH" HYPOTHESES Price & Brown (125) label the two basic
hypotheses explaining hunter-gatherer sedentism as the pull and push hypothe-
ses. In the pull hypothesis, the presence of abundant resources is both a necessary
and a sufficient condition for sedentism to appear. To an earlier generation of
theorists, it seemed a straightforward assumption that humans would take
advantage of the opportunity to reduce mobility: "in general sedentary life has
more survival value than wandering life to the human race, and... , other things
being equal, whenever there is an opportunity to make the transition, it will be
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made" (11: 134). Sedentism, it was argued, is a more efficient form of resource
procurement, because it saves the effort of moving-in particular, the effort of
moving children, the elderly, and the infirm (126, 147). Part of the reason for
assuming sedentism to be efficient is that Western society sees movement as
burdensome and undesirable; but many other societies do not (41).
Many archaeologists continue to rely upon the "pull" hypothesis. "Re-
source abundance" allegedly accounts for sedentism among the Ainu and
Owens Valley Paiute (161); paleoindians of California (110); the aboriginal
inhabitants of coastal eastern North America (120), coastal areas of the arctic
(172, 117) and northern Europe (134); and Archaic hunters of the Andean
puna (130), central Mexico (113), the midwestern United States (29), and the
Great Basin (76, 103). Marine and wetland resources are the usual candidates
for resource abundance. (We leave aside the issue of whether sedentism is
actually demonstrated in each of these studies.)
The pull explanation of sedentism seems reasonable, but it is fraught with
empirical difficulties. Archaeologists long assumed that agriculture, for exam-
ple, would always result in sedentism because people could then produce
abundant food resources. However, we now know that agricultural practices
often precede sedentism, sometimes by many centuries, in the American
Southwest (166, 167), Mesoamerica (53), and the American Midwest (29).
Furthermore, although few agricultural societies change residences throughout
the year (126), some are nonetheless residentially mobile, even ones like the
Raramuri, for whom agricultural products constitute nearly 100% of diet (42,
59, 68). It was long assumed that the transition from pithouses to above-
ground pueblos, a transition that almost surely indicates a reduction in annual
residential mobility, was associated with an increased use of maize. However,
in at least some parts of the southwest, the settlement transition does not
appear to be associated with an increased use of maize (e.g. 55, 162; papers in
108). The relationship between agriculture and mobility is now open to ques-
tion (68).
Sedentism may not reduce mobility, nor may it be as efficient, as was once
thought. Binford (17) suggested that when residential mobility is constrained,
logistical mobility must increase. Eder (47:851) found this to be true among
the Batak, where mobility was shifted from local groups as whole units to
lower levels of social organization. As the Nata River Basarwa became less
residentially mobile, men made increasingly longer foraging trips, and women
gathered a wider range of bush foods, including lower-quality foods, working
longer hours to process them (44, 79). In both cases, reduced residential
mobility does not seem to have reduced overall energy use; instead, it reorgan-
ized it (and may even have increased it). We should point out that the Basarwa,
the Batak, and other foraging societies undergoing sedentization today are
instances of secondary or contact sedentism-a change in settlement behavior
imposed upon nomadic peoples by outside governments for purposes of cen-
sus and control. While it is difficult to separate the effects of reduced mobility
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ers increases the "cost" of moving), and the degree of risk attached to the
resources of different areas. Much creative research remains to be done in this
area.
NON-MATERIALIST APPROACHES The push and pull hypotheses are both firmly
grounded in a materialist paradigm. In both, sedentism occurs initially (for
whatever reason), and as a result foragers intensify production. (Many studies
of sedentization indicate that intensification is coeval with or soon follows the
appearance of sedentary villages.) However, some argue that sedentism results
from the perceived need for intensification. In this scenario, what we might call
the social competition hypothesis, effort expended in mobility is channeled to
producing resources for competitive feasts, long-distance trade, or other pres-
tige-seeking activities (12, 73). Lourandos (102), for example, argues that a shift
towards semi-sedentism was driven by the development of increasingly com-
plex social networks and alliance systems. (Note that many archaeologists
would argue the reverse.) Lourandos suggests that environment and demogra-
phy play a role in establishing the initial need for social competition, but others
find the reasons less clear why some hunter-gatherers intensify (and become
sedentary) and others do not (e.g. 12). Determining whether or not sedentism
precedes intensification and social competition is critical to testing the social
competition hypothesis. To date, discussion relies upon generalized archae-
ological sequences where it is not easy to say which comes first.
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For many years, archaeologists have measured the size of prehistoric foraging
territories and thus the degree of mobility through the distribution of stone
tools relative to the geologic sources of their raw material (e.g. 82, 138).
Paleoindian Clovis and Folsom projectile points, for example, are often found
100-300 km from their sources. Some archaeologists argue that this indicates
high residential mobility (see papers in 48 and 149) or a combination of
residential, logistical, and territorial mobility (94). Such information provides
a rough indicator only of range, rather than mobility, since the raw material
could have been acquired through residential or logistical movements, or trade.
Archaeologists have tried recently to reconstruct mobility by examining the
organization of stone tool technologies (e.g. 4-7, 16, 23, 86, 91, 114, 118, 154,
155). Organization here refers to "the selection and integration of strategies for
making, using, transporting, and discarding tools and the materials needed for
their manufacture and maintenance" (114:57). Many factors affect tool pro-
duction, use, and discard; but currently the relationship between technology
and mobility takes precedence in research (156).
Archaeologists debate the relationship between mobility and technology.
Bifacial tools or cores are generally associated with frequent and/or lengthy
residential or logistical movements (26, 91, 94), while expedient flake tools
and bipolar reduction are associated with infrequent residential moves (118).
However, the distribution of lithic raw material could alter these associations
significantly (5). Other researchers focus on the statistical relationship be-
tween tool assemblage size and diversity. Shott (141) suggests that collectors
produce assemblages with no correlation while foragers produce assemblages
with a strong positive correlation; additionally, he suggests that there should
be an inverse relationship between technological diversity and residential mo-
bility (140). However, correlations between assemblage size and diversity
could be related to many factors (104, 153). Torrence (157), for example,
argues that technological diversity relates directly to the degree of risk in-
volved in prey capture rather than mobility per se.
Reconstructing mobility strategies from prehistoric technology is hampered
by several difficulties. First, there are no simple relationships between mobil-
ity and tool manufacture. Many other variables intervene-e.g. tool function,
raw material type, and distribution, hafting, and risk. Second, the reconstruc-
tion of different tool manufacturing methods from debitage is fraught with
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interpretive difficulties. Third, stone tools are not routinely used to a signifi-
cant extent by any living foragers, making it difficult to test ideas relating
stone tools to mobility. Analyses of ethnographic data often make the unveri-
fied assumption that as the total technology goes (including its organic parts)
so goes the (usually absent) stone tool component. At present, then, many
interpretations of stone tool assemblages as indicators of mobility are subjec-
tive, intuitive, and sometimes contradictory.
Site Structure
Another avenue of research into mobility lies in the analysis of site structure,
the spatial distribution of debris within a site (54, 97a). Studying changes in
modern Basarwa residential sites, Hitchcock (80) found that as residential
mobility decreased, the abundance and diversity of debris left in a site in-
creased, as did site size and the number of storage features (although group
size did not increase). Site size and artifact density are frequently used as
indicators of reduced residential mobility (10, 126), although they can be
attributed to several other factors as well, such as frequency of reoccupation
(31). The distribution of remains may be a better indicator of residential
mobility since it appears to be directly related to the length of time a location is
occupied. Specifically, instead of simply throwing or sweeping trash off to the
side (as mobile foragers do; see 116), sedentary Basarwa used secondary trash
dumps located farther from houses than those in camps of residentially mobile
groups. They also used specific areas for specific activities; thus, as residential
mobility decreased, internal site differentiation increased (80). While many
factors (e.g. social organization and cultural conventions) affect the use of
space, the site structures among nonresidentially mobile horticulturalists and
recently settled foragers and pastoralists appear to be more internally differen-
tiated than those of residentially mobile peoples (e.g. 42, 43, 59, 97, 100).
Much of this space differentiation seems to be directed toward the privati-
zation of space (40, 100, 170) and may be related to a change in methods of
conflict resolution. One way conflict is generated among foragers is through
one individual's refusal to meet demands to share. (Contrary to many claims,
foragers do not always share freely and gladly.) Mobile foragers use move-
ment to resolve social conflict; but if this option is not available, people may
"privatize" space (170) by placing houses further apart or by building enclosed
houses and fenced households to hide food and goods and discourage demands
to share (80). Criteria for recognizing mobility strategies archaeologically
must develop hand-in-hand with a theoretical understanding of how social
relations change as residential mobility decreases.
Houses
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round occupation (9). Perhaps the most commonly used archaeological indica-
tor of a reduction in residential mobility is the presence of houses. Cross-cul-
tural studies demonstrate that investing labor in houses is related to low (or no)
residential mobility (e.g. 55). But even substantial housing may not indicate a
cessation of residential movements. Cedar plank houses built by Northwest
Coast peoples, for example, were partially dismantled in the spring and moved
to fishing locations.
Unfortunately, the presence of any kind of dwellings, even of those requir-
ing little energy investment, is often taken as evidence of year-round seden-
tism. Unless we understand the factors involved in house construction (21),
differential preservation of indications of houses can lead to erroneous recon-
structions of mobility. For example, as a group of people become territorially
constrained, they may visit the same places repeatedly each season. Binford
refers to such arrangements as embedded mobility (19, 60). Under these cir-
cumstances, people may construct facilities, including houses, at some loca-
tions. This may be why houses appear in rockshelters when settlement systems
appear to be becoming sedentary (1, 9). But these houses could indicate
redundant use of locations through residential or logistical mobility due to
territorial circumscription or a reduction in long-term mobility options. Evi-
dence of house scavenging (168) likewise could indicate continuous or sea-
sonal use, or be a product of reoccupation on even longer time scales.
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Sociopolitical Organization
While foragers are often characterized as "egalitarian," a concept undergoing
increasing scrutiny (52), many are clearly nonegalitarian, with political hierar-
chies, wealth competition, and extreme social and gender inequality (125).
Keeley (89) demonstrates that groups occupying one camp for more than five
months of the year live at substantially higher population densities, rely more
heavily on stored food, and have greater wealth distinctions than foragers who
are more residentially mobile. It is likely, therefore, that a reduction in residen-
tial mobility encourages or is part of a process resulting in inequality.
Some see sedentism as lifting the constraints residential movements impose
upon a foraging society. Following the argument that sedentism is a product of
resource abundance and increases efficiency, many assume that sedentary
hunter-gatherers simply have more time and resources to devote to what Gould
(57) calls "aggrandizing" behavior. Here, inequality appears to be the inevita-
ble response of human nature to the accumulation of surplus made possible by
sedentism.
But sedentism probably does not lift previous constraints as much as it
replaces them (93). Specifically, sedentism probably occurs under, or soon
results in, conditions where residential and/or long-term mobility are no longer
viable solutions to local resource failure. Sedentary hunter-gatherers must use
other mechanisms to reduce the risk inevitably associated with reliance on a
single resource or location (38, 73). These may include efforts to increase
household production and storage by restricting sharing networks, by using
slaves, and by permitting men to control the labor of women (wives or sisters)
and affinals, thus fostering gender and social inequality (39, 74, 93, 137).
Additionally, more time and effort may be put into alliance formation,
entailing for example competitive feasting (73) and the manipulation of mar-
riages to ensure access to another group's resources. Accordingly, trade may
change as societies become sedentary; trade may in addition become more
critical as a symbolic indicator of social alliances (35). Territoriality may also
increase as competition for resources escalates with population growth (34,
37). Such competition might also increase perceived cultural or ethnic differ-
entiation between groups. Given that sedentism requires methods other than
mobility to reduce risk, the temporal and spatial parameters of resource vari-
ability probably condition the specific forms of social, trade, and territorial
relations (93, 129, 135).
Demography
The association of certain behaviors with sedentism implies that they are
generated not only under conditions of low residential mobility but also under
conditions of population pressure (89). In some cases population growth may
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The changing adult work patterns associated with the changing resource har-
vesting and processing requirements of sedentism may also affect childrearing
(83) and alter enculturation. As the Basarwa became sedentary, for example,
men spent more time away from home and women spent more time at home
processing resources and doing other work (45, 79). These factors may con-
spire to reduce the time men and women spend with children, encouraging
young children to work more, especially in the care of infants, and thus cause a
shift from parental to peer-group enculturation (46, 45). Although the process
is by no means clear (and many factors are involved), peer-group enculturation
appears to encourage processes of gender role enculturation (46) and the
formation of modal personalities different from those of parental encultura-
tion. Such a shift in enculturation patterns could alter culture in sedentary
communities.
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CONCLUSION
There are no Gardens of Eden on earth, no single locales that can provide for
all human needs. Mobility-residential, logistical, long-term, and migration-
was the first means humans used to overcome this problem. Changes in the
way humans choose to be mobile dramatically affect other aspects of human
life, from demography to enculturation. Theoretically, then, mobility must be
critical to understanding human evolutionary change. From this perspective, it
is encouraging to see theoretical and archaeological scrutiny of early hominid
foraging and mobility patterns (137a). Potts, for example, has asked whether
the concentrations of fauna and stone tools at places such as Olduvai Gorge are
evidence of home bases or are intentional caches of stone to be used by
foraging hominids, perhaps in scavenging carcasses (121). The foraging and
mobility patterns of early hominids were in all likelihood quite different from
those of any known foragers or nonhuman primates. Documenting variability
in these patterns is important to an understanding of how selective processes
shaped human evolution [see Potts's (121) comparison of the archaeology of
Olduvai and Koobi Fora].
By deconstructing the concepts of mobility and sedentism, we see the need
to construct more useful approaches than a simple polarization of mobile vs
sedentary societies. Indeed, it is no longer useful to speak of a continuum
between mobile and sedentary systems, since mobility is not merely variable
but multi-dimensional. No society is sedentary, not even our own industrial
one-people simply move in different ways. The dimensions of movement
need to be disentangled and studied independently so that we can understand
how factors altering one component affect other areas of behavior and culture.
We will also need more detailed theoretical arguments linking group move-
ment and daily activities with economic structures, labor requirements, child-
care, marriage, and trade. Numerous technical and theoretical difflculties
surround the archaeological study of mobility, and archaeological, ethno-
graphic, and ethnohistoric data must be used creatively in developing meth-
odological tools for the study of prehistoric mobility. Such middle-range
research promises a large reward, for the analytical study of mobility and
foraging will provide a clearer understanding of important evolutionary proc-
esses.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I thank Lin Poyer for her patient consideration of previous drafts, and W. H.
Wills and T. Rocek for their thoughts on sedentism.
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